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The man who is, to many, the unsung hero of the Beach Boys is Al Jardine, the friend and former schoolmate of the Wilson brothers and...

Is it possible to bully a decade? The 80s sure seems to have an eternal “Kick Me” sign on its back. Can someone help an...

Any female Motown troupe arriving at Hitsville in the wake of the Supremes, and indeed Martha and the Vandellas, were inevitably going to invite comparisons....

Few studio specialists had a more wide-ranging resumé than Bill Price, whose career stretched over fully 50 years and embraced blues, pop, classic rock, new...

Thanks in large part to Kraftwerk’s weighty influence on synth-pop, hip-hop, and subsequent strains of dance music, German music has long since overturned the preconceptions...

When listening to a song like “Strawberry Wine,” it’s tempting to lodge a familiar complaint: “You just don’t hear anything like this on country radio...